Stories from the ground — celebrating rural women, advancing land rights, and driving change across Tanzania.
A gathering organised by the Tanzania Rural Women's Forum brought together more than 200 women from the Southern Highlands to discuss climate change, gender-based violence, women's land rights, clean energy, and the preservation of indigenous seed varieties.
The Rural Women Assembly Tanzania Chapter, coordinated by MIICO, celebrated the International Day of Rural Women in Bagamoyo, bringing together delegates from 12 SADC countries to voice their demands and launch the Women's Land Rights Manifesto.
MIICO has officially launched the Youth Entrepreneurship for Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) project, a two-year initiative funded by MasterCard Foundation through AGRA, targeting 72,000 smallholder farmers in Njombe, Mbeya, and Songwe.
The NOURISH project — a five-year initiative funded by NORAD — has begun implementation, aiming to achieve resilient food security and improved nutrition for 168,000 smallholder farming households in Songwe, Rukwa, Manyara, Dodoma, and Singida.